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Originally Posted by motorhead
In Pa, you are not allow to display any light bars turned on or turned off. They have to be covered and say out of service. Other than that, I believe you can copy a police vehicle all you want. Like others have said too, there are many unmarks in the hands of civilians.
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Right, obviously from state to state the laws differ and I can only speak to the legality in Texas. I imagine having a lightbar over the roof is crossing into a pretty grey area, but if all the lights in the lightbar are clear/white and/or amber in color, it would be completely legal for a civilian to own in Texas. In fact, I've seen several instances where a civilian vehicle has a smaller lightbar on the roof (typically a truck, though) where I'm speculating that the driver probably uses on construction sites.
Again, completely legal to own here. If you start to use that to pull people over though, completely illegal.
And to be quite honest, if you're using a lightbar to attempt to pull people over, it doesn't matter what your car's paint scheme is. It's illegal.
Owning a black Maserati that has white doors and some decals though, not illegal, in any state.
